Object photograph·Csn4024·1927–1931

Pottery from Lapithos, Cyprus Museum

This object photograph shows human remains.

Pottery vessels and bone fragments lying together on the floor of a pit, Lapithos — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Csn4024. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Large banded jars lie on their sides in the foreground, with smaller jugs, juglets and bowls clustered against the earth wall behind. Several pale bone fragments lie on the sandy floor among the vessels, and a dark lump of clay or stone sits at lower left. The finds are shown in place in the ground, not arranged for display.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Find from Cyprus, Cyprus Museum. Pottery from Lapithos, 602.

Swedish, as on the record

Föremålsbild, fynd från Cypern, Cyprus Museum.

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